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I Don't Wanna Store Stuff

Editor's Note: The above title is a reference to a Descendents song, I don't wanna grow up. It is not an example of my terrible grammer.

I'm really tired of thinking about storing things. I don't mind having files on a filesystem or tables in a database, but honestly, I'd rather leave it to other folks. This is especially true if they are going to handle the user interface for me. With that in mind I'm going to rewrite my blog to take advantage of some other helpful tools.

My idea is to use a feed reader to subscribe to my disparate feeds. I will cache them on my site and use the reader to keep track of what has been read (or published). I will probably see if I can implement archives using the feed reader as well, meaning, it would be a query to feed reader service. If not, I can always look into the services I'm using directly but that defeats some of the purpose. The idea that is important is that the feed reader should act a normalizer for the data. That means I learn the reader API and I'm done. From there, I can add whatever sources I want. That means if I want to write with Wordpress, Blogger, Posterous, whatever, I can.

I think Twitter is an exciting service for this very reason. It provides yet another format to share thoughts and ideas. My issue is that I'm sick of other services being the primary endpoint for these things. Instead, I want to take control and use them for what they do best, provide an interface and format.

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